RE: Homepage definition

What is the 4.5 release timetable?

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From: Stéphane Croisier [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Homepage definition


At 17:22 21/03/2005, you wrote:


Hi! 

In the Administration Guide you mention in the chapter "Manage Home Page
Definition": 

>Currently you can only create a home page definition which links to an
existing Jahia page. A 
>future release of Jahia may permit to use home page definitions to
automatically create a new 
>page based on a previously chosen template when creating a new user/group
or when setting 
>a home page for a user/group. 

We would like to have this. Have you already prepared something? Are there
any pitfalls you already thought of? 


Automatically creating a sub-set of pages in Jahia is still quite complex.
So we wanted to wait for the implementation of the XML import/export module
(Jahia 4.5) in order to be able to store some generic XML file to generate
some pre-defined pages, lists, etc... you may then call each time you create
a new user.

Meanwhile you may develop something more custom by forcing the use of a
modified version of the Registration/MySettings engine and which would
automatically add some pre-defined pages somehwehere on your site.



We would also like to add an "external URL" as homepage for a group. 

The background to it: We have implemented a organization management, where
certain groups represent organizations and will have its own Jahia homepage.
Some organizations maybe already have an external homepage. 

The endUser gets a navigation tree, where all organizations (stored as
groups) are displayed in a tree. Some of them have a Jahia homepage, some of
them an external homepage and some of them don't have a homepage yet. 


Clearly it is quite a while (Jahia 3.0) that we developed this feature, so
perhaps you may want to take a look directly in the code to see what we did
at that time...

Cheers
Stéphane




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